Obama's America"2010 and Beyond is on now with Chris Mathews & Tom Joyner

[Top Cat]

Good stuff...

[Drunken Irishman]

1. I can't watch because I fear it'll turn into a hate-fest.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Anything is possible with Tweety

Anderson Cooper is better tonight.

[FrenchieCat]

5. You're probably right......

[Top Cat]

7. Right now they are have good dialog... Tweety is behaving for the most part.

[Hello_Kitty]

10. Melissa Harris-Lacewell is amazing! eom

[FrenchieCat]

13. She's a good counterfoil for Stephen Smith......

Who's is from the old school, even if he's relatively young.

[ibegurpard]

3. no thanks

Why is Tweety even on television?

[Clio the Leo]

19. He called Obama "the fifth Kennedy brother...."

.... and was one of the few commentators to take on Howard Dean during that insanity last month. (Like Dean or not, Tweety was clearly taking up for the President.)

Tweety gets a bad rap.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Stephen Smith gets on my nerves......

he talks fast, but he doesn't say much.

[Clio the Leo]

20. No he says a lot of ....

.... BS.

I dont like Michael Eric Dyson either.

[Hello_Kitty]

6. This is probably the single best thing I've seen on MSNBC. eom

[Top Cat]

8. I agree Kitty

[babylonsister]

9. I'm liking it so far. nt

[Cha]

11. Thanks..I see

it later on youtube, I hope.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Chris matthews and his MSNBC Polls.......

will it ever end?

Folks looking at him like.....WTF?

[Overseas]

15. I agree with them. The audience going WTF, I mean.

Let me hear from the guests! Great range of guests. I'd love to hear them more.

Wish he'd let Tom Joyner take the lead.

[Overseas]

14. Very sad Chatty Chris is hosting with his wanting to pretend.

Wanting to pretend we've "grown beyond" racism or something. And loving far too much to hear himself speak, when

Professor Harris Lacewell is saying such wonderful things. She's been great and deep tonight. Talking about social inequities that affect many people, black brown and poor of all kinds. Stressing that it shouldn't be left at worrying about surface issues.

And just now, Go Professor Lacewell, saying we should perhaps better be asking what is going on in white peoples' minds.

And earlier bringing up the incarceration rates of young black americans, as the right wing or libertarian black guy on the panel was talking about it being easy to find a job if you know how to go about it.

Chris likes to hear himself speak too much. Would have preferred another host, like perhaps Alison Stewart, or Ed Schultz.

[Hello_Kitty]

16. John McWhorter is a douche. He should stick to linguistics, where he is awesome.

And stay out of politics.

[Overseas]

18. Hear Hear! Glad the others are getting more time to speak now.

But dear Chris does go on.

And that obligatory inclusion of right wingers bugs me.

[FrenchieCat]

17. She also brought up marriage equality....and Chris shut up her up quick!

That was something!

[Overseas]

22. I agree. That was really abrupt. //nt

[flamingdem]

21. It's quite interesting nt

[Overseas]

23. I'll watch part of the rebroadcast too.

To catch some parts I missed.

[Hello_Kitty]

24. Irshad Manji is a moran spouting neocon gibberish.

Apparently, she asked a bunch of young people why they voted for Obama on election night. She claims they all told her it was because he was black. Therefore, Obama's victory was racist.

[FrenchieCat]

25. Yes....someone should give her some kind of pill to pop to calm her down.....

She was quite combative and arrogant. The Audience was looking at her like....
if we wanted to hear this kind of shit, we could have watch Fox news! Doh!
Then she says...I'm not a pollster. So why bring up your little unscientific poll.
She must have asked a group of 5 kids or something. I hate that shit. That's the kind
of discussion coming from her that is there to divide and polarize.

[angee_is_mad]

26. Disappointed

This is who they should have had on the panel:

Paul Mooney
Bill Russell
Jim Brown
Warren Ballentine
Professor from Brown U that was on Rachel last week

[Hello_Kitty]

27. Melissa Harris-Lacewell made it all worthwhile for me.

Plus the interlude where they showed videos of the Hispanic law student, the guy who wrote "Whitopia", and the white woman from a racist family who deliberately moved into an African American dominated community was very moving.

Granted, it wasn't perfect, and Tweety preened and filibustered a bit too much, but it was a damn good show overall.

[Overseas]

29. She was the best. I wish she had hosted the event. //nt

[tishaLA]

28. Tricia Rose (the Prof from Brown) is amazing

and so is Melissa Harris-Lacewell. I thought it was kinda disappointing too. I thought it was too Tweety-centric and, frankly, Tom J toned down his rhetoric too much for my taste.